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An Eighth 100 QUESTIONS on DEMOCRACYasked at Head-of-Government & Other Meetings 2004 11 November 2004 @ Raymond Lloyd

INDEX (continued on last page)

Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country *CPD/PD #Followup11.11.04 London Georgian Conference Zurab Zhvania Prime Minister Georgia PD " " (2) " " Jean Lemierre President European Bank London PD11.11.04 London World Travel Market Marco Montini Director Italian Tourism U K PD 10.11.04 " " " " Antonio Recca Ragusa Tourism Italy PD10.11.04 London World War II 60th Ann Ivor Caplin Veterans Minister United Kingdom PD

QUESTIONS

11.11.04 London Georgian Conference Zurab Zhvania Prime Minister Georgia PDAfter the Nato summit in Istanbul in June 2004, I would have liked to come on to visit Georgia, but was

discouraged by the visa formalities, which are based on the need to finance border bureaucracies, rather than to welcome visitors: will you abolish visas for your fellow democracies, perhaps even in time for my next planned visit to Istanbul, for the triennial congress of the International Union of Architects in July 2005?

11.11.04 London (2) Georgian Conference Jean Lemierre President European Bank London PDThe Caucasus is the only EBRD region of operations which as yet to host the Bank's Annual Meetings: do you

plan to hold these meetings in, for example, Georgia, following those in Belgrade in 2005 and London in 2006?

With the notable advances in democracy made by Georgia beginning in early 2004, will the Bank increase investment in that country?

11.11.04 London World Travel Market Marco Montini Director Italian Tourism U K PD With many 2500th anniversaries of the democracies coming up shortly, not only in Greece but in Italy, may I ask

how you plan to celebrate in 2005 the 2500th anniversaries of the birth in Sicily of the philosopher Empedocles, and in Elea in south Italy of the mathematician Zeno; and in Rome in 2006 the establishment in 494 BC of the Tribunate to protect the plebs in the new Republic?

10.11.04 London World Travel Market Antonio Recca Ragusa Tourism Italy PDHaving visited your beautiful baroque city in Sicily, may I ask if you are using the opportunity of the

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in nearby Malta from 25 to 28 November 2005, to attract to Sicily some of the 800 participating delegates and 1200 journalists, and whether by that time we can benefit from low-cost Ryanair flights to the nearby airport of Comiso?

10.11.04 London World War II 60th Ann Ivor Caplin Veterans Minister United Kingdom PDIn congratulating you on the plans announced today to dedicate a memorial to World War II women veterans on

9 July 2005, may I ask whether the 60th anniversary commemorations will also recall the sacrifices of the child veterans, not so much that of 70-year-olds like myself who survived unscathed three years of German bombing in Bristol from 1940 to 1942, but the British children who were disabled for life by such enemy action?

-------* PD or CPD denotes the writer's accreditation as editor of the Westminster-based, 1997-founded, monthly The Parity Democrat (ISSN 1367-6946), or as honorary secretary of the 1980-founded Council for Parity Democracy. Most questions were asked live, others were emailed on the spot.

# Denotes a 5- 14-page paper on women's advancement and democracy prepared before the meeting, and sent with a postscript of questions asked at the meeting. The above list is complemented by 13 others, seven earlier "100 Questions on Democracy", and six "100 Questions on Women's Advancement".

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9.11.04 London (2) World Travel Market Patricio Tamariz Executive Director Tourism Ecuador PD12 February 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist Charles Darwin: given that many

of his important observations took place in Ecuador, are you already making plans to celebrate this bicentennial, not least for attracting British visitors?

With the complete dollarization of Ecuador's monetary system, the only symbol of Ecuador remaining on world money is the hummingbird next to Charles Darwin on the Bank of England ten pound note: now that the US Mint has freed up its designs on both the 5 and 25 cent coins, could you not get Washington to put a symbol of Ecuador-US friendship on one of its coins, which would then become the common currency of both your countries?

8.11.04 London World Travel Market Rhianna Quinn Brady Vice-Pres Visitors Bureau NYC PD24 October 2005 is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations: will you invite to New York the

80-year-old staff members who worked in your city in the late 1940s?

8.11.04 London World Travel Market Milica Cubrilo Director Serbian Tourism Belgrade PDWhile I myself look forward to coming to Belgrade in May 2005 for the European Bank meeting you have just

mentioned, may I ask what plans you have to celebrate, also in 2005, the fifth anniversary of the return of democracy to Serbia, on 5 October 2000?

8.11.04 London (3) World Travel Market Dimitris Avramopoulos Minister of Tourism Greece PD AthensAt the US presidential inauguration in 1993, Greece celebrated 2500 years of democracy, the reforms in 507 BC

of Cleisthenes: in 2005, also coinciding with a US presidential inauguration, how will Greece celebrate the 2500th birthday of Pericles, one of the world's greatest democratic statesmen?

Also, how is Greece planning to celebrate in September 2010 the 2500th anniversary of the first marathon, run by Pheidippides to inform the young Athenian democracy of its victory over tyranny?

And finally, now that the Athens Olympics and Paralympics have concluded so successfully, how will Greece continue its ten-year-long work to revive the Olympic Truce, in anticipation of the Winter Games in Turin in 2006, the Summer Games in Beijing in 2008, and the Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010?

8.11.04 London (2) World Travel Market I Gede Ardika Minister of Tourism Indonesia PD17 August 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of Indonesian independence: on 6 June 2004, the 60th anniversary of

the Normandy landings, I attended a reconciliation ceremony between French and German veterans: will you commemorate your 60th anniversary next August to invite to Indonesia, perhaps through Garuda flights, the 80-year-old Dutch soldiers and administrators present in Indonesia in the late 1940s, as a further act of reconciliation?

From 18 to 20 September 2006 the World Bank will be holding its Annual Meetings in Singapore: because that city-state has only limited opportunities for tourism, will you come to an agreement with Singapore to promote opportunities for tourism among the thousands of bankers and journalists attending the World Bank meetings?

5.11.04 Brussels European Council Ayad Allawi Prime Minister Iraq PD EU26-04The democracies will have to hold our nerve for at least two weeks in the coming battle against the suicide

terrorists in Fallujah: will you, who have shown extraordinary courage both in long exile and as Prime Minister, continue to give us a good example?

Note for file: Question prepared, but held back, essentially to give priority, in the short time available, to journalists from the Middle East: instead I handed to the accompanying Foreign Minister Hoshyar al-Zebari the editorial on Fallujah which had appeared in the Wall Street Journal that morning, Friday 5 November 2004.

4.11.04 Brussels European Council Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU26-04Will this European Council send a congratulatory message to President Bush, both on his own reelection, and for

working together with the European democracies to bring about the first popular election of a president in Afghanistan?

Note for file: On 3 November, in a 90-word press release, "The President of the European Council . . . congratulated President Bush in a personal letter . . ." Also on 3 November, "The European Union sends its warmest congratulations to Hamid Karzai on his victory in the first direct presidential elections ever in Afghanistan". The 6-paragraph message did not mention the US or the American lives which were sacrificed to make these elections possible. On 5 November “the European Council warmly congratulated President George W Bush on his re-election”.

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11.10.04 Montreal (2) emailed Jacques Diouf Director General FAO PDMay I express my utter incredulity that for this week's World Food Day, Fri 15 October 2004, you will present a

special medal to your predecessor as Director General of FAO, Edouard Saouma of Lebanon, and this in the 20th anniversary year of his having held up for 20 days, from 8 to 27 June 1984, at the height of the Ethiopian famine, some 26 000 tons of desperately needed food aid, until Ethiopia removed its Representative to FAO, and during which time the Canadians calculated that 45 000 of your fellow blacks starved to death? How much more cynical can a Senegalese become?

And do you not realize that, by associating yourself so closely with someone who had the FAO constitution changed to get himself reelected for a total of 18 years, you are inviting comparison with your own efforts to ignore the wishes of the 2003 session of the FAO Conference that Directors General should serve for a maximum of 10 years, rather than you too trying in 2005 to be elected for a total of 18 years? And, just as importantly, that you are negating the good work of your equals in the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Program, who have done so much to restore the good name of world food development since Saouma left Rome?

6.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings James Wolfensohn President World Bank PD IMF10-2004 May I say how astonished I was to hear you say on 2 October that you had not ruled out standing for a third (five-

year) term as World Bank President? On 6 September 2000 I wrote to Governor Bush with a list of 90 able US women bankers and businesswomen who might be appointed "when the incumbent, having already passed the McNamara-imposed 65-year retirement age, ends his five-year term in December 2000": I had to retract that in a letter of 10 November 2000 to the President-Elect, with "I had not realized that the incumbent had become the first person in thirty years to overturn McNamara's 65-year limit, not so much to serve out a five-year term after reaching that age, but to put himself up for reappointment after the age of 65, to the year 2005".

Both letters may be found on the Letters page of my website, as may be many others criticizing UN heads for using the advantages of incumbency to perpetuate their mandate (and thus keep out able women). In fact, I am not necessarily for age limits - Pope John XXIII is a wonderful counter-example - but may I express the hope that, if you do stand again, you will this time make a clear case both for continuing to the age of 76, and for personally overturning either the practice or constitutional requirement of most major UN agencies which set a two-term or ten-year limit?

6.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings (2) Revenue Transparency Panel CPDMay I say how refreshing it is to be among civil society representatives dedicated to World Bank Watch and

OECD Watch: in the 1980s Unesco watch was made up of one person, Rosemary Righter, now Associate Editor of The Times of London: may I express the hope that similar energy will go into a UN Watch, such as may have alerted the world earlier to the billion-dollar Oil for Food scandal now being exposed in Iraq?

One reason for the lack of transparency on projects is that there is little transparency in many international organizations themselves: to give one example, I have been trying for nearly thirty years to expose the corruption in FAO where, in 1977, the new Director General, Edouard Saouma of Lebanon, used his voting majority among second and third world dictatorships to set up a $40 million Technical Cooperation Program, under which he had the sole authority to allocate sums up to $250 000 for projects, and through which he had the constitution changed to make himself reeligible, and to become reelected for a total of 18 years: the present Director General, Jacques Diouf of Senegal, is trying something similar, seeking a third six-year term in 2005:

may I suggest that the World Bank and IMF give a lead to other international bodies, by having candidates for leadership hold public debates on the issues, and every six months, say, hold BBC World Service-type phone-ins, when civil society representatives can hold the World Bank President and IMF Managing Director accountable for programs in their countries?

5.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings Yukiko Omura Executive Vice-Pres MIGA CPD IMF10-2004In several countries there are now ethical investment funds, those in Britain listed regularly in the Financial Times:

what contacts doe MIGA have with these funds to encourage the many persons in the richer countries who wish in this way to invest in world development?

5.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings (2) Chad-Cameroon Pipeline panel CPDBoth Cameroon and Chad, according to Freedom House, are dictatorships, with very low ratings for political

rights and civil liberties (list of world ratings handed in): what would be the World Bank's response if either government arrested NGO or civil society representatives active on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline, such as Delphine Djiraibe from Chad and Samuel Nguiffo of Cameroon, the editors of your September 2004 pipeline report and both of them, with Honore NDOUMBE NKOTTO also of Cameroon, present here today?

Second, some heads of extractive industries are friends of the World Bank, for example, Peter Sutherland, Chair of BP oil, who gave the Per Jacobsson lecture in 1998, on Managing the International Economy in the Age of Globalization: to what extent does the World Bank run its projects by sympathetic international CEOs?

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4.10.04 Washington Brazil-US Chamber Stanley Fischer ex 1st Dep Managing Director IMF PDIn June 2004 at Sea Island President Bush missed the opportunity of inviting Brazil to become a permanent

member of the G8, unlike in 1976 when President Ford invited Canada, or 1991 when President Gorbachev invited himself: in 2005 Britain holds the G8 presidency: what economic arguments can be used to convince Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Chancellor Gordon Brown, that the world's real G9 democracy join the G8, and thus provide an authentic voice both for the world's hungry, and for lusophone & Latin American peoples?

4.10.04 Washington Brazil-US Chamber Pedro Malan ex Governor National Bank Brazil PD IMF10-20042004 marks the 60th anniversary of Brazil sending 20 000 troops to fight for Europe's freedom: on 19 January

2004 in London, I asked Culture Minister & singer Gilbert Gil if he would compose a song in their honour, and a year earlier, I suggested to novelist Paolo Coelho that he might find another "Alchemist" among these 80-year-old veterans: what I would ask now is whether any Brazilian financial institution is commemorating this 60th anniversary, the last major one when many veterans are still alive, a commemoration which would also enable us Europeans to express gratitude for the part Brazil played in creating the conditions for Europe's current freedom and prosperity?

3.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings Hans Michel Minister of Finance Germany PD IMF10-2004 On 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the German Post Office issued an 80 Pfennig stamp

with the Jewish Wisdom saying: Das Geheimnis der Erloesung heisst Erinnerung (the secret of redemption - lustration - is remembrance): with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz coming up on 27 January 2005, the last major anniversary while survivors are still alive, will Germany, with the authority given by EU decision 2004/C 91/06, issue a 2 euro commemorative circulation coin with that saying or other appropriate reminder?

2.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings Donald Kaberuka Minister of Finance Rwanda PD IMF10-2004 By how many millions of dollars does Rwanda expect to be relieved of debt by the time of the G8 meeting in

Gleneagles Scotland in July 2005, and how does Rwanda plan to use this money? And may I say, in asking this question, that I am a friend of Linda Melvern, the British historian who has written two heartbreaking books about the passivity of the rich countries during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994: A People Betrayed: the Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide; and the just published: Conspiracy to Murder: the Rwanda Genocide? Note for file: In reply, the Finance Minister urged all 50 press and NGOs present to read Linda Melvern's books, and said he hoped Rwanda would be relieved of the $20 million debt servicing every year (currently equal to the annual health budget), which would be spent to universalize primary school education. Later, I gave him my Annual Meetings Paper 10, with its five pages portraying women on banknotes, and suggested that on any future note Rwanda portray the murdered Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiymana, somewhat as India issued three coins in memory of the assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

1.10.04 Washington Heritage Book Launch Dick Wirthlin Author The Greatest Communicator PDRonald Reagan, to his great credit, put political evil on the international moral agenda: in what way do you

consider President Bush's concept of evil is similar to, or differs from that of Ronald Reagan?

28. 9.04 London emailed Gerhard Schroeder Federal Chancellor Germany PDOn 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the German Post Office issued an 80 Pfennig stamp

with the Jewish Wisdom saying: Das Geheimnis der Erloesung heisst Erinnerung (the secret of redemption - lustration - is remembrance): with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz coming up on 27 January 2005, the last major anniversary while survivors are still alive, will Germany, with the authority given by EU decision 2004/C 91/06, issue a 2 euro commemorative circulation coin with that saying or other appropriate reminder?

20. 9.04 Athens 12th Summer Paralympics Mark Hackett City Councillor Manchester U K PD AthensIn 2005 Britain holds the presidency of the Group of Eight industrialized democracies (G8), and one subject which

some ministers are trying to put on the agenda is the growing pandemic of childhood obesity and diabetes, and the need for more sport and exercise, in the rich countries: will any meeting of G8 health and other interested ministers coincide with the staging of the Paralympic World Cup you have just announced to be held in Manchester from 14 to 15 May 2005, or alternatively, will you invite the ministers to Manchester for the occasion?

20. 9.04 Athens (2) 12th Summer Paralympics Phil Craven Pres International Paralympic Cte PD Athens

Since Seoul in 1988, the Paralympics are now always held in the host city of the Olympics, yet the sites of future Games are voted on only by IOC members, not by IOC and IPC members combined, which would seem essential if candidate cities were to highlight themselves as centres of excellence for the disabled: meanwhile with regard to the five candidate cities for 2012, would the present ranking be the same if Paris, Madrid, London, New York and Moscow were to host only the Paralympics?

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20. 9.04 Athens (2) 12th Summer Paralympics Phil Craven Pres International Paralympic Cte PD Athens

In your information sheet on the new Paralympic World Cup, you mention that disability events were integrated into the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, since when I have tried to find tabulations which combine both Olympic and Paralympic medals: the website of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a link to their own tables, for information, non-official purposes, and this may be the position of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC): but is there any sports body in the world which publishes these combined tables, thus giving the Paralympics the parity they deserve?

Note for the file: If the final Olympic table (dated 29 August 2004) were combined with the Paralympic medals to 24 September 2004 (with 4 more days to go), the top 6 countries would rank as follows:

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank by Total

China 68 50 38 156 2U S 39 56 53 158 1Russia 37 31 50 118 3Australia 36 41 35 112 4U K 33 27 32 92 6Germany 26 35 44 105 5

Such tables might be an indication of how much the different nations cared for their disabled citizens. Similarly revealing would be tables of medals won by female and male athletes, Olympian and Paralympian, showing the importance which different societies gave to the adequate nutrition and education of girls, and to the rehabilitation of the disabled, not least of widows, young and old, made homeless, violated and wounded in war and by landmines. Thus 30 of the participating 130 countries had no women Paralympians: on the other hand, Indian women won more medals than men in the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, thanks to their prowess in shooting!

19. 9.04 Athens 12th Summer Paralympics Alcestis Choremi Director Acropolis Museum PD AthensWith the 2500th anniversary of the birth of Pericles approaching in 2005, do you plan an exhibit showing the

contribution made by this great democratic statesman to the building of the Parthenon and of Greek and European classical civilization in general?

18. 9.04 Athens (2) 12th Summer Paralympics Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD Athens(emailed) May I express astonishment that Phil Craven, the President of the International Paralympic Committee

since 2001, who addressed the world at the Paralympics Opening Ceremony in Athens last night, 17 September 2004, has not been honoured for his contributions to world disability sports beyond the award in 1991 of an MBE, the lowliest of British orders, for his services to wheelchair basketball, by the last UK government? Should not this outstanding ambassador, for British humanitarianism and excellence, be made at least a working peer, thus giving the blind Home Secretary David Blunkett an empathetic ally in the House of Lords?

And, still on the subject of sport, is this not one of the worst cases of discrimination in the British honours system since when, unlike Sir Francis Chichester, that magnificent round-the-world sailor, Ellen MacArthur, received a similarly lowly order, rather than being made a Dame of the British Empire, and thus helping you in your efforts to get other twenties-year-olds out to vote?

18. 9.04 Athens 12th Summer Paralympics Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki Pres Athens Olympics PD AthensThe Paralympic movement grew out of work to rehabilitate wounded veterans from World War II and, among the

athletes tonight, there were several who seemed to have sustained their disability from more recent wars, even from genocide, yet there was no reference in the opening ceremony to the Olympic Truce: will the excellent work which Greece has done over the past ten years to promote the Truce be brought to world attention during the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games on 28 September?

Note for the file: As it happens, I thought the final choreography of the Paralympics Opening Ceremony even more beautiful that those of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics itself; yet on no occasion did I hear the Truce mentioned, despite the fact that one reason why Athens won the 2004 Games was its promise to restore the importance of the Truce, that the Games were originally organized to reinforce a cessation of war, rather than the Truce being called to facilitate the Games. And subsequently, when talking with competitors, and observing Paralympic events such as wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball, it was obvious that athletes from Iran and Bosnia, for example, would have suffered their disability from landmines.

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11. 9.04 The Hague European Finance Mins Jean-Claude Trichet Pres European Central Bank PD EU26b-04

There are three other countries which issue Euro coins - Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican: what measure is the European Central Bank taking to halt the past speculation on these coins, especially now (with directive 2004/C 91/06 of the Official Journal of the European Union of 15.4.2004, page C 91/5), all Euro countries may now issue each year one commemorative circulation coin of 2 Euros? (Jean-Claude Trichet said this was an important question, and he would look into it)

10. 9.04 The Hague European Finance Mins(2) Gerrit Zalm Minister of Finance Netherlands PD EU26b-04

Three years ago, before the introduction of the euro, the Dutch had some of the finest banknotes in the world, yet now, because of forgeries, there are signs in many shops and ticket counters that even the 50 euro will not be accepted, let alone the 100, 200, and 500 euros: what steps are you taking to restore public confidence in the higher euro banknotes?

Tomorrow Saturday, is the third anniversary of 9/11, since when the dollar has weakened and the euro strengthened: have the European finance ministers been able to determine how far this may have been due to capital flight from the dollar to the euro by nationals of Saudi Arabia and other terrorist-creating countries?

7. 9.04 Keukenhof European Agri Ministers Cees Veerman Minister of Agriculture Netherlands PD

Madeira has been designated as European Region of the Year for 2004: given your eclectic choice of wines for both the ministers and the press in the Knights Hall last night, ranging from Austria Veltliner to Hungarian Tokaj, will the Dutch Presidency also serve Madeira at future EU meetings, not least by 1 November when the European Commission has a Portuguese President?

7. 9.04 Keukenhof European Agri Ministers David Byrne European Food Commissioner Brussels PD

The growing pandemic of obesity and diabetes in Europe, now foreseen even among young Chinese, is due, in part, to the genetic characteristics of individuals: are any food and agriculture ministers promoting animal and plant genetics, in order to make dairy products less calorific, and vegetables more palatable, to children?

6. 9.04 Bleiswijk European Agri Ministers Hans van Es Director The Greenery Netherlands PD

In order to tackle the growing problem of obesity and diabetes among European children, there are now various campaigns, such as Five-A-Day in Britain, to get children to eat more fruit and vegetables: the silver bullet may be to make broccoli as appetizing as potato chips: meanwhile is The Greenery promoting plant genetics in order to make vegetables and salads more palatable to children?

1 November 2004 is the 60th anniversary of the formation in London of the Vegan Society, of vegetarians who do not eat dairy products: since so many of them would be customers of your mass distribution centre for fruits and vegetables, will you declare 1 November an Open Day to welcome local vegans and vegetarians to The Greenery?

6. 9.04 Rotterdam European Agri Ministers Klemens Key Proprietor De Majesteit Rotterdam PD

You describe with pride the near 80 years of age of this great paddle steamer: why not, when you in fact become 80 on 1 May 2006, create an Open Day for 80 (or 800!) 80-year-old citizens of Rotterdam and the Rhine?

6. 9.04 Rotterdam European Agri Min (3) Franz van Keulen External Relations Port of Rotterdam PD

On security, what measures have you taken, since 9/11 three years ago, to prevent terrorist materials arriving in, say, food containers? And given the Port of Rotterdam's record for safety, are you working with American inspectors to check container contents at source? And third, have you found out whether any of the nuclear centrifuges, which went to Iran, Libya and North Korea, passed through Rotterdam?

4. 9.04 St Gerlach EU/ECOWAS Foreign Mins Bernard Bot Foreign Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04

At least 4 of the 14 West African countries at this first EU/ECOWAS meeting, if not dictatorships, are authoritarian regimes - Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea and Togo - where citizens enjoy few political rights and civil liberties: how far is this new EU/ECOWAS forum designed to encourage West Africans in their push for democracy and the rule of law?

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4. 9.04 St Gerlach European Foreign Mins Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04

In eight days, 12 September will mark the 350th anniversary of the first permanent Jewish settlement in North America, the arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 of 23 Portuguese and Dutch Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil: will the Netherlands and the European Union send a congratulatory message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, thanking New York and America first for giving hospitality to millions of European Jews, and secondly for demonstrating that it is only when a people accepts with pride its combined Judeo-Christian heritage that it can obviate or eradicate the cancer of anti-Semitism from the body politic?

Note for file: It is similarly only when Europe fully acknowledges its Islamic heritage, the 700 years of Arab civilization in SW Europe, the 500 years of Turkish civilization in SE Europe, and the contribution which our 16 million Moslem citizens, originating from Suriname to Indonesia, have made to modern European prosperity (not to mention the revival of cricket fortunes in England and of football fortunes in France), that we can irradiate the new cancer of Islamophobia

3. 9.04 St Gerlach European Foreign Mins Bernard Bot Foreign Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04

The UN's Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 was followed in Europe by a more elaborate Convention in 1950 and now a Charter of Human Rights: should not the UN's 1948 Convention against Genocide be followed by a more uptodate European convention, both against genocide and against democide (the mass murder by governments of their own citizens) which, among other benefits, would limit the months of wrangling which took place over Rwanda in 1994 and now over Darfur in 2004?

Note for file: Javier Solana, EU High Representative, also at the press briefing, pledged at the Stockholm Conference against Genocide in January 2004 that the EU would take more responsibility for preventing genocide in the Western Balkans and the African Great Lakes area: he would be helped if our generation, after Srebenica, Rwanda & Chechnya in the past ten years, made our own contribution to "Thou shalt not kill", the sixth of Moses' Ten Commandments

26. 8.04 London emailed Stavros Lambrinides Ambassador Truce Foundation PD

Further to our conversation in London on 23 June on approaching ministers of defence and distinguished servicemen and women to sign the Olympic Truce, and given that the purpose of the initial Paralympic-type games in 1948 was to rehabilitate disabled veterans, and given also the many opportunities taken by the ongoing 60th anniversary commemorations of World War II to promote reconciliation among veterans and nations, do you plan to include in the in the opening ceremony on 17 September, say, a one-minute interlude, live or recorded, when the Truce will be signed by veterans competing in the Paralympics ? And indeed to invite distinguished disabled veterans such as former US Senators Bob Dole and Max Cleland to Athens to sign the Truce?

Note for file: Perhaps I missed it, but I saw no reference to the Olympic Truce in the earlier, excellent opening ceremony on 13 August and, given the fine work done by Greece over the past ten years to promote the Truce, and my own efforts since Atlanta, I was equally sorry that, among the 19 coins issued by the Bank of Greece for the Games, there was none on the Truce, nor even, unlike Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney, none for the Paralympics. Perhaps when I come to Athens on 17 September, I shall find that I was mistaken, and the opening ceremony will indeed highlight the Truce for which I have been campaigning since 1968, then to bring about a pause in the Vietnam war?

27. 7.04 London Business & Environment Barbara Young Chief Executive Environment Agency PDBusiness leaders are all citizens, like ourselves, but how soon will we and they get practice in disposing

systematically of household waste: here in Westminster we have public bins for green, brown and clear glass, but few for paper and none for batteries as, say, in Belgium and the Netherlands, where they have private household containers for glass (of only one kind), paper, batteries and other items?

23. 7.04 Farnborough International Air Show Perry Jago General Secretary UAV Systems Association PDAlready in 2004 Nato AWACs planes have monitored the Spanish royal wedding and the European football cup in

Portugal and will soon cover the Olympics in Athens: have you drawn up a list of major British, American, European and international events, over the next five years, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can protect the public?

8. 7.04 The Hague EU-Ukraine summit Leonid Kuchma President Ukraine PDSeventy years ago the soviet communists starved four million Ukrainians to death, the biggest famine in modern

European history: there is now another famine being perpetrated by communists, in North Korea: has the new Ukrainian democracy been able, from its replenished "bread basket", to contribute to the European Commission's Humanitarian Office (ECHO), or the World Food Program, to help the starving mothers and children of Korea, or the children now threatened by famine in Darfur in Sudan?

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29. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Maria Teresa Gouveia Foreign Minister Portugal PD Nato-3In 2004 Madeira has been designated European Region of the Year, yet few Europeans know this: with the

appointment today of the Portuguese Prime Minister as President of the European Commission, will you remedy this ignorance, even if it means drowning a few Europeans [like the Duke of Clarence] in a butt of Madeira wine?

29. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Aleksander Kwasniewski President Poland PD Nato-3It is thanks to a Polish citizen, Raphael Lemkin, that the world has a Convention against Genocide which in turn

was based on the mass murders suffered by the Polish people, both Christians and Jews: will one of Poland's special contributions to Nato and the European Union be as a Guardian of the Genocide Convention? And will you give Europe a lead by sending your foreign minister to join Colin Powell and Kofi Annan, as they leave tomorrow for Sudan, to stop the current genocide in Darfur?

28. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Jacques Chirac President France PD Nato-3

Among the 60th anniversaries of the Liberation of France which we are now commemorating are the nazi massacres at Vaissieux, Tulle and Oradour: a massacre is now occurring in Darfur in Sudan, with perhaps 150 000 black Moslems seeking refuge in eastern Chad: could not France, which has made several interventions in Africa over the past forty years, now send a force to help protect these refugees from cross-border militias, and in the process help restore the honour of France which was so badly betrayed by your sanctimonious predecessor in arming the Rwandan interahamwe and the subsequent genocide of 800 000 black Africans?

28. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Secretary General Nato PD Nato-3

On Wednesday 30 June Colin Powell and Kofi Annan will go to Sudan in an attempt to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur: will you and Europe's High Representative Javier Solana go with them because, while the massacre may represent little military threat to the Euro-Atlantic Alliance, it is the greatest challenge to our universal moral and political values, since we stood by while 800 000 of our fellow blacks were hacked to death in Rwanda in 1994? Or will you at least mandate Bertie Ahern, the outgoing President of the European Union, whose Irish co-citizens know what it is for a million people to die from famine and another million to become refugees abroad?

27. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Richard Colston Asst Secretary General Nato PD Nato-3On the Nato Response Force (NRF) there is, at this moment, a genocide going on in Darfur, in which perhaps 320

000 persons have already died: will there be any discussion at this summit of the NRF becoming a Genocide Intervention Force? And, if it had existed earlier, would the NRF have been used in 1992 to halt the military rape of some 40 000 women in Bosnia in 1992, or in 1999 to halt the ethnic cleansing in Kosova?

27. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit George W Bush President United States PD Nato-3

In your first year of office, when a brief on the 1994 genocide of 800 000 Rwandans was brought to your attention, you were reported to have written on it "not on my watch": yet already some 320 000 black Moslems in Darfur have been harried to death by the islamist government of Sudan and its Arab janjaweed militia, and a similar number now seem likely to die of hunger and disease: at this Istanbul summit, can you not state forcefully that a likely future use of the new Nato Response Force will be to intervene in incipient genocides and military rapes, and in the meantime invite the German, French, British, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Spanish foreign and defense ministers to join Colin Powell and Kofi Annan on their forthcoming journey to Darfur, with a covering of AWACs planes, to demonstrate that this genocide will at least be halted "on your watch"?

27. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit (2) Anders Fogh Rasmussen Prime Minister Denmark PD Nato-3

Yesterday, 26 June, was the International Day in support of Victims of Torture, and already the Danish government has given $1 000 000 to your excellent ICRT centre in Copenhagen, the one started by Inge Genefke, for victims of torture in Iraq: now that President Bush has expressed his abhorrence at what happened in Abu Ghraib, can this allocation also be used to rehabilitate persons tortured by the Coalition Authority, and even, in another area pioneered by the ICRT, for the rehabilitation of the Coalition torturers themselves?

In April 2005, children all over the world will celebrate the 200th birthday of the great Danish storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen: given Denmark's outstanding humanitarian record, from being the first country in 1802 to abolish the transatlantic slave trade, to 1974 in first working with victims of torture, to 2004 in Denmark being proportionately the world's most generous country with development assistance, will you celebrate Hans Christian's bicentenary with a special program for children, for example on behalf of children tortured in recent African conflicts, or children trafficked from eastern Europe?

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23. 6.04 London (3) Olympic Truce launch Stavros Lambrinides Ambassador Truce Foundation PDAt least three countries - Costa Rica, Iceland and Panama - have constitutions abolishing the military, while Japan

has a pro-peace constitution: has the Truce Foundation yet been successful in getting the Olympic Truce written into any national constitution, for example, that of Greece, or into any international treaty, for example, as a protocol to the Red Cross Geneva Conventions?

In September 2010 we shall celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the Marathon, which was in fact a run to announce a victory over dictatorship by the young Athenian democracy: does the Truce Foundation plan to organize marathons for peace and democracy around the world in 2010?

You have mentioned the support for the Truce among the military: why not have a category of signatures by ministers of defence and current and former military leaders, and also seek the support of the pro-peace World Veterans Federation in Paris?

18. 6.04 Brussels European Council (3) Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU25-04The informal meeting of European Defence Ministers, to be held under the Dutch EU presidency at Noordwijk on

16-17 September 2004, coincides exactly with the 60th anniversary of the landings at Arnhem on 17 September 1944: will the defence ministers take part in a commemoration which will bring together the 80-year-old veterans of Britain, the US, Poland, the Netherlands and Germany, somewhat as veterans on both sides commemorated the 60th anniversary of El Alamein in 2002, and the French and Germans that of D-Day 60 at the Caen Memorial on 6 June 2004?

In 2004 Madeira was chosen out of ten candidates as European Region of the Year, yet during the Irish Presidency I saw no occasion when the famous Madeira wine was offered to European Ministers: can you make good this possible omission during the Dutch Presidency in the second half of 2004, bearing in mind that at least the Founding Fathers of America thought it prolonged a happy life?

18. 6.04 Brussels European Council Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD EU25-04The G8 summit which Britain is hosting at Gleneagles in the summer of 2005 will take place on or very close to

the 700th anniversary of William Wallace, the Guardian of Scotland, whom the English tortured and executed on 23 August 1304: the Wallace Monument in Stirling is only some thirty miles from Gleneagles: will you provide the G8 leaders with the opportunity to pay homage to this Great Briton?

18. 6.04 Brussels European Council Pat Cox President European Parliament PDOver the past six European elections since 1979, voter turnout has declined from 63 to 45%: in some countries

national elections are considered invalid or inquorate, until at least 50% of citizens take part: the next European parliament has to present recommendations before the 2009 elections: should one of these be that in any country with less than 40% turnout, that is 10 of the 25 countries in 2004 - Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden and the UK - that any MEPs whose constituency have, for example, only 21% turnout, the MEPs will receive only 21% of their salary?

7. 6.04 Caen France D-Day 60 Normandy Gerhard Schroeder Chancellor Germany PDMay I first thank you for the moving address you gave at the Franco-German ceremony in the Caen Memorial on

6June, first for the reconciliation address itself and then for the way you personally greeted so many of the citizens who had waited an hour in the sun; and may I ask, just as your address was followed by Beethoven's Ode to Joy, that, in this bicentennial year of Immanuel Kant, you draw again the attention of us Europeans to the Treaty of Perpetual Peace and other writings of perhaps the greatest philosopher of the European Enlightenment? And may I ask this as one of the first British schoolchildren to visit Germany after the war, in the Bristol-Hannover exchange of 1950 and who, at least since studying philosophy in Oxford four years later, has tried to put into practice Kant's moral imperative: always to consider other persons as ends in themselves, never as a means to my own ends?

6. 6.04 Caen France D-Day 60 Normandy Jacques Chirac President France PDIn June 2003 you invited to the G8 summit in Evian the leaders of Algeria, Brazil, China, India, Senegal and South

Africa, all of whose countries took part in the liberation of Europe and the world from nazi and militarist dictatorships: Algeria and Senegal whose graves I have visited in France; Brazil, India and South Africa whose graves I have visited in Italy; and China whose forces kept militarism at bay for as long as fifteen years: while none of these was present among the fifteen countries invited today in Caen, do you plan to express to them Europe's gratitude on the occasion of the 60th anniversary on 25 August 2004 of the liberation of Paris?

And now that the 80-year-old German veterans have come for the first time to Normandy, will you encourage the government and people of Germany to invite back as liberators for the 60th anniversary in 2005 the 80-90-year-old soldiers and civilian administrators from France, Britain and the US whose magnanimous treatment of a defeated people in the years following World War II has helped Germany become one of the world's most advanced democracies of modern times?

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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country PD Followup

19. 5.04 London D-Day 60 briefing (2) Ivor Caplin Minister for Veterans Britain PD

This 60th anniversary of D-Day will be the first occasion when the German government is officially invited to the commemoration: will German veterans also be present? And will there be any official recognition of the contribution made to the liberation of Europe by the 50 000 men and women from the Republic of Ireland who served in the British forces? and of the 800 Danish sailors who helped put the Americans ashore on Omaha Beach?

It has been said that the genius, the evil genius, of Adolf Eichmann was the mobilization, despite many competing claims, of transports of millions of persons to the nazi death camps: who was the benevolent Allied genius who mobilized the transports and accommodation to move 3.5 million service personnel and their equipment across the Channel to Normandy?

12. 5.04 Cork Health Ministers (2) Micheal Martin Minister of Health Ireland PD

During World War II there was food rationing in Britain which, thanks to good nutritional guidelines set in train by John Boyd-Orr, later Director-General of FAO and a Nobel Peace laureate, led to children like myself being more healthily nourished than before the war: with the growing epidemics of childhood obesity and diabetes, is it beyond our imagination to devise some form of healthy food rationing in schools throughout Europe, at least on an experimental voluntary basis? And similarly, while many countries during World War II had Ministries of Food to make sure supplies were fairly distributed, is it not the time to recreate such ministries, not only for food safety, but for healthy nutrition?

12. 5.04 Cork Health Ministers Tommy Thompson Secretary of Health United States PDIn September 2003, at an expert meeting on obesity called in Milan by the Italian Minister of Health Prof

Girolamo Sirchia, some of the most significant contributions were made by doctors from the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia, and I asked them whether the subject would be raised at the G8 summit in Sea Island Georgia to be held from 8 to 10 June 2004: at the June 2003 G8 summit in Evian France, President Bush announced a major programme to prevent HIV being passed on from mothers to children in the developing world: will the epidemics of diabetes and obesity among children in the industrialized world be a subject discussion at Sea Island? and can we expect soon a major breakthrough in research into their genetic origins, such as happened in France and the US in 1983 to isolate the Aids virus?

11. 5.04 Killarney Agriculture Ministers Joe Walsh Minister of Agriculture Ireland PD EU25cYesterday, when visiting the Muckross Traditional Farms near Killarney, which have won several awards for

educational work, I was reminded of a question I once put at an EU environmental ministers meeting, that of designating European or World Heritage Farms and Farmscapes: today there are some 750 Unesco World Heritage Sites but hardly 20 which might be called agricultural, mostly gardens and wine-growing areas: in 2002 Unesco limited future sites to only 30 a year: if therefore Europe wants to preserve our agricultural heritage, and create new forms of rural income, is there not a case for designating European heritage farms and farmscapes, and would Ireland take a lead by asking all 25 agriculture ministers here whether they could draw up a heritage shortlist, such as the drystone island of Inishmore, or Holkham Hall in Norfolk where Thomas Coke pioneered modern agriculture, which they would like to become better known and attract schoolchildren and visitors from the rest of Europe and the wider world?

11. 5.04 Killarney Agriculture Ministers (2) Franz Fischler Commissioner of Agriculture Europe PDIn a few months Europe may have a new Commissioner for Agriculture: which of your achievements over the past

ten years in favour of farmers in the developing countries do you hope the new Commissioner will consolidate and enhance? Similarly, over the past thirty years agro-industry has put an extra 500 calories a day on the meal tables of Europe and the industrialized world: do you expect the new Commissioner to take a more active role in counteracting the consequent epidemics of diabetes and obesity?

6. 5.04 Dublin EuroMed Ministers (2) Brian Cowen Foreign Minister Ireland PD EU25c

May I first congratulate the Ministers on naming the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures after the late Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, which I believe is the first European institution named after a distinguished woman: several countries in the southern Mediterranean, for example, Algeria, Jordan and Morocco, have recently made significant progress in democracy: will Ireland and the European Union acknowledge this, by granting specially favorable trade terms to democratizing countries? This EuroMed meeting is one of the few international forums where representatives of the Palestinian people can meet as partners of the richer democracies: will observer status be granted in future to representatives of the Turkish Cypriots, and so signal Europe's determination to develop inclusive policies with our Moslem minorities, as contrasted with our awful behavior in the past century toward our Jewish citizens?

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19. 4.04 London European Bank Jean Lemierre President European Bank PD EB2004

As you have just said, Mongolia, not a part of the USSR, but still an ex-communist country, will soon become an EBRD country of operations: would you encourage the Central Asian and ex-communist country of Afghanistan to become a shareholder in the Bank? And does the Bank operate in the disputed territories of Kosova, Abkhazia, Transdniestr and Nagorno-Karabakh?

19. 4.04 London European Bank Daniel Yergin De Larosiere lecturer PD

On your forecasts to 2010, not least your point on confidence, how soon do you think that the Russian and eastern economies and polities will run up against the roadblock of lustration, a recognition of the fact that Lenin, Stalin, and other communists murdered 30 000 000 civilians, ten million more even than the nazis, and the need to provide justice or even compensation to the hundreds of thousands of survivors and their dependents still alive today?

15. 4.04 London (2) Annual General Meeting Peter Sutherland Chair BP PD

Would it not obviate or diminish the criticisms on directors' emoluments if, in addition to their business profile, they also listed any previous volunteer service in developing countries or the community, and any directorships or longstanding memberships of humanitarian or other philanthropic organizations?

With BP's centenary as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company coming up in 2009, would you find it useful to have the centenaries that year of other bodies, in the expectation that you may find opportunities for cooperation? Or alternatively, if you count your centenary from the syndicate formed by English entrepreneur William Knox Darcy in 1908, would you like the centenaries coming up in 2008? (lists subsequently emailed)

3. 4.04 Punchestown EU Finance Ministers Jean-Claude Trichet Governor European Central Bank PD

One of the problems facing older and poorer persons during the Euro switchover, for example in Italy, was that they had only banknote equivalents of the 1 and 2 euro coins, a problem which may become even more acute in some of the poorer ten or twelve accession countries: will the European Central Bank insist that such countries first introduce coins in their own currencies equivalent to the 1 and 2 euro coins, or will you authorize the printing of 1 and 2 euro banknotes to lessen the hardships faced by the old and the poor?

3. 4.04 Punchestown EU Finance Ministers Col Armstrong Conductor Irish Army Brass & Pipe Bands PD2004 marks the centenary of the bandleader Glenn Miller, born on 1 March 1904 in Clarinda Iowa, and died flying

for the freedom of Europe in 1944: how are your bands planning to celebrate this centenary?

2. 4.04 Punchestown ICT Presentation Jim O'Hara General Manager Intel Ireland PD

How far is Ireland working toward, not competition, but cooperation, for example, by setting up affiliates in India, another English-speaking country, in order to tap the great potential for information technology in the populous developing world?

26. 3.04 Brussels European Council Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD

On 24 March, the day before you visited Tripoli, the Wall Street Journal profiled one of several Libyan democracy activists, Fathi Eljahmi, who was released from prison on 12 March, but who has since been officially threatened with the kidnapping of his wife and daughter: were you successful in obtaining from Col Gadhafi, the 35-year-long dictator, a pledge that his abandonment of weapons of mass destruction will be a prelude to his abandoning weapons of mass repression?

26. 3.04 Brussels European Council (2) Konstantin Karamanlis Prime Minister Greece PD

What plan is Greece making within a European context in 2005 to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the birth of Pericles, still one of Europe's greatest ever democratic leaders?

And similarly, what plans are you making, following the Olympics and Paralympics in Athens in 2004, for the 2500th anniversary on 13 September 2010 of the first Marathon, to hold races for freedom and democracy around the world, such as occurred in 490 BC with the run to inform Athens that its 18-year-old democracy had just defeated the then Persian dictatorship?

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Date Place Occasion Person Addressed, Office & Country PD Followup 9.11.04 London (2) World Travel Market Patricio Tamariz Executive Director Tourism Ecuador PD 8.11.04 " (3) " " " Dimitris Avramopoulos Minister of Tourism Greece PD Athens " " " " " Milica Cubrilo Director Serbian Tourism Belgrade PD " " " " " Rhianna Quinn Brady Vice-Pres Visitors Bureau NYC PD " " (2) " " " I Gede Ardika Minister of Tourism Indonesia PD 5.11.04 Brussels European Council Ayad Allawi Prime Minister Iraq PD EU26-04 4.11.04 " " " Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU26-0411.10.04 Montreal emailed Jacques Diouf Director General FAO PD 6.10.04 Washington IMF Annual Meetings James Wolfensohn President World Bank PD IMF10-2004 " " " " " (2) Revenue Transparency Panel CPD 5.10.04 " " " " Yukiko Omura Executive Vice-President MIGA CPD IMF10-2004 " " " " " (2) Chad-Cameroon Pipeline panel CPD 4.10.04 " Brazil-US Chamber Stanley Fischer ex 1st Dep Managing Director IMF PD " " " " " Pedro Malan ex Governor National Bank Brazil PD IMF10-2004 3.10.04 " IMF Annual Meetings Hans Eichel Minister of Finance Germany PD IMF10-2004 2.10.04 " " " " Donald Kaberuka Minister of Finance Rwanda CPD IMF10-2004 1.10.04 " Heritage Book Launch Dick Wirthlin Author The Greatest Communicator PD

28. 9.04 London emailed Gerhard Schroeder Federal Chancellor Germany PD20. 9.04 Athens 12th Summer Paralympics Mark Hackett City Councillor Manchester U K PD Athens " " (2) " " " Phil Craven Pres International Paralympic Cte PD Athens19. 9.04 " " " " Alcestis Choremi Director Acropolis Museum PD Athens18. 9.04 " (2) " " " Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD Athens " " " " " Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki Pres Athens Olympics PD Athens11. 9.04 The Hague European Finance Mins Jean-Claude Trichet President European Central Bank PD EU26b-0410. 9.04 " " " " " (2) Gerrit Zalm Minister of Finance Netherlands PD EU26b-04 7. 9.04 Keukenhof European Agri Ministers Cees Veerman Minister of Agriculture Netherlands PD EU26b-04 " " " " " David Byrne European Food Commissioner Brussels PD 6. 9.04 Bleiswijk " " " Hans van Es Director The Greenery Netherlands PD " Rotterdam " " " Klemens Key Proprietor De Majesteit Rotterdam PD " " " " " (3) Franz van Keulen External Relations Port of Rotterdam PD 4. 9.04 St Gerlach EU/ECOWAS Foreign Mins Bernard Bot Foreign Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04 " " " European Foreign Mins Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04 3. 9.04 " " " " " Bernard Bot Foreign Minister Netherlands PD EU26b-04 26. 8.04 London emailed Stavros Lambrinides Ambassador Truce Foundation PD27. 7.04 London Business & Environment Barbara Young Chief Executive Environment Agency PD23. 7.04 Farnborough International Air Show Perry Jago General Secretary UAV Systems Assn PD 8. 7.04 The Hague EU-Ukraine summit Leonid Kuchma President Ukraine PD29. 6.04 Istanbul Nato summit Maria Teresa Gouveia Foreign Minister Portugal PD Nato-3 " " " " Aleksander Kwasniewski President Poland PD Nato-328. 6.04 " " " Jacques Chirac President France PD Nato-3 " " " " Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Secretary General Nato PD Nato-327. 6.04 " " " Richard Colston Asst Secretary General Nato PD Nato-3 " " " " George W Bush President United States PD Nato-3 " " " " (2) Anders Fogh Rasmussen Prime Minister Denmark PD Nato-323. 6.04 London (3) Olympic Truce launch Stavros Lambrinides Ambassador Truce Foundation PD18. 6.04 Brussels European Council (2) Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Netherlands PD EU25-04 " " " " Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD EU25-04 " " " " Pat Cox President European Parliament PD 7. 6.04 Caen France D-Day 60 Normandy Gerhard Schroeder Chancellor Germany PD 6. 6.04 " " " " " Jacques Chirac President France PD19. 5.04 London D-Day 60 briefing (2) Ivor Caplin Minister for Veterans Britain PD12. 5.04 Cork Health Ministers (2) Micheal Martin Minister of Health Ireland PD " " " " Tommy Thompson Secretary of Health United States PD11. 5.04 Killarney Agriculture Ministers Joe Walsh Minister of Agriculture Ireland PD EU25c " " " " Franz Fischler Commissioner of Agriculture Europe PD 6. 5.04 Dublin EuroMed Ministers (2) Brian Cowen Foreign Minister Ireland PD EU25c19. 4.04 London European Bank Jean Lemierre President European Bank PD EB2004 " " " " Daniel Yergin De Larosiere lecturer PD15. 4.04 London (2) Annual General Meeting Peter Sutherland Chair BP PD 3. 4.04 Punchestown EU Finance Ministers Jean-Claude Trichet Governor European Central Bank PD " " " " " Col Armstrong Conductor Irish Army Brass & Pipe Bands PD 2. 4.04 " ICT Presentation Jim O'Hara General Manager Intel Ireland PD26. 3.04 Brussels European Council Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom PD " " " " (2) Konstantin Karamanlis Prime Minister Greece PD

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